Kurt Lauer

Member since September 2021

#46 546 74

My name is Kurt, and I live in Seattle, Washington. My main passion in travel is hiking and exploring National Parks, Wilderness areas, and dramatic landscapes. My biggest goal in traveling has been to hike in every US wilderness area - and so far I've been to 748 of America's 803 designated wilderness areas.  I've also been to all the national parks (except the one in American Samoa) and almost all the National Monuments and National Park Historical sites.  In my travels to different parks around the world, I noticed a couple years back that I had been to a number of WHS, so I came across this site, and decided to add them up.  Since then I've made a more concerted effort to visit them, though my focus is still parks and the natural landscapes.  Just finished a six month journey to Indian subcontinent.  My focus was hiking in the Himalayas in India, Nepal and Bhutan, but I added a couple extra months and visited all the other non-Himalayan WHS in Bangladesh, Nepal and India.  This allowed me to be the first person in the group to visit all the India WHS (though this won't last long as the are nominating 2 more for addition in the coming years and I only went to one of them).  What I like about visiting WHS is it gets me to places that I wouldn't necessarily visit and the journey to get there takes me to a lot of interesting places along the way. 

Recent Visits
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    April 28, 2025
    Aachen Cathedral, Beemster Polder, Bergpark Wilhelmshöhe, Castles of Augustusburg and Falkenlust, Colonies of Benevolence ...
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    April 7, 2025
    City of Luxembourg
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    April 7, 2025
    Amiens Cathedral, Belfries, Champagne, Chartres Cathedral, Flemish Béguinages ...
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About Kurt Lauer

First name
Kurt
Member since
September 2021
Country of Origin
None
Visits
Rank
#46
WHS
546
Tentative Sites
74
Website Participation
Reviews
4
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World Heritage Sites
Tentative Sites
201 18
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Reviews by Kurt Lauer

Khangchendzonga National Park by Zoë Sheng

Khangchendzonga National Park (Inscribed)

Khangchendzonga National Park

During the late summer and and through the Fall of 2023 I embarked on a series of treks through the Himalayas starting in Ladakh and working my way to Bhutan. …

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Satpura Tiger Reserve (On tentative list)

Satpura Tiger Reserve

I visited the Satpura Tiger Reserve during Christmas of 2023. Satpura is the largest of the Tiger Reserves in Madhya Pradesh. Due to its larger size Tiger sightings are less …

Archaeological Sites on the Deltaic Landscape of B by Kurt Lauer

Archaeological Sites on the D… (On tentative list)

Archaeological Sites on the Deltaic Landscape of B

The Archeological Sites of the Deltaic Landscape are a series of old mosques and burial sites in Western Bangladesh. Most are well off the beaten path, and even the sites …

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The Architectural Works of Mu… (On tentative list)

The Architectural Works of Muzharul Islam

Muzharul Islam is a 20th Century Bangladeshi architect. I never heard of him until I saw that Bangladesh had added a number of his buildings to the TWHS list. Three …